@@KitKatNisa What about treating patrons like customers and people? Your first sentence is conjecture. I have not worked in the Food Service business since I was a cook at Mac's Steakhouse, 1983. The main cook Gene was a beer drnking psycho and radomly did not show up Sunday mornings and sunday lunch was insanely busy without Gene. I just could not carve the roast beef on the buffet like Big Gene but I treated everyone the same given I was 17 years old.
This is one of my favorite scenes in the series. It feels like dust settling after a storm, with somber undertones. Especially with after everything he's done, and he's just sitting in plain sight, in public next to ordinary people and none of them have a clue who he is.
reminds me of the end of Narcos where after months of hiding, even celebrating his birthday in hiding, Pablo Escobar returns to his hometown and sits peacefully on a park bench in public eating strawberry ice cream. The first and last time he'd ever genuinely enjoy life in a long time.
Love how Walt's first meeting with the arms dealer ends with Walt saying his gun was for self defense. And now he's full on ordering an M60 and not even trying to argue that.
I think the manual had a 4 in front before it was cut off so m42, not tryna be a stickler, u know what nvm don’t mind me this is an annoying comment, who cares if it’s an m42 and not an m60, much apologies sir. I apologize profusely, Im gonna go put my head through a wall. Many apologies, much forgiveness.
@@NattyIce553there isnt an m42 light machine gun in US operation nor has there been anyhow! Definitely an m60 model LMG. Myth busters even used an M60 for their comparison
@@kevintrice2444 Maybe that's true about the money. But he certainly did enjoy the power. He told Skyler as much in the last episode. "I did it for me. I did it because I liked it."
Whenever I’ve seen bacon on US shows it doesn’t look that appetising. It’s different than the bacon I’m used to in the UK. I think it’s a different cut from the pig.
It's very easy to give yourself away not responding to your "new" birthday I imagine. Giving him the old birthday was a good solution. Plenty of people share birthdays.
@@TheStraightestWhitestI also think it’s sentimental for him since Skylar use to make him the same breakfast so maybe he didn’t want to forget his real birthday
Best meal ever at Denny's. 20hrs, no sleep or food and we were starving. It cost a few dollars. Our introduction to the USA - a memory to last a lifetime! Breaking bad? Yes, the same category - will never be bettered.
At 70, my father has mild dementia. He is enjoying all the older movies like he is seeing them the first time. Seems like forgetting is sometimes good.
Watched it with a friend for my 3rd time and girlfriend for the 4th. Showing things to people who've never experienced them before can emulate that new feeling a bit
Unbelievable that this all took place within only two years. The episode when Skyler went into the pool was supposed to be only 1 year since the pilot…crazy. The amount that Walt changed that drastically within a year is honestly disturbing
I feel like at most restaurants, ordering a side bacon would never give you enough to spell out '52' on your plate. You'd be lucky if you could spell out '11.'
@davidhutchinson5233 must give you props in two ways. For one I forget the gun dealers name and I was scrolling the comments hoping to find it. Not only did your comment remind me of his name "Lawson"...... It did it with one of the funniest but truest statements on here. The only crime is your statement deserves more likes!!! 😂🤣😂🤣
Let's be honest the only integrity he had was through the necessity of him not being caught in a ring of arms dealing. Other than that he does not care what happens to anyone outside his circle.
The strangest thing about this show is that Walter never tried to build an Empire. Despite all his money, he never tried to pay off police or politicians. Yet, he always pretended in his own mind that he was very powerful. His power was limited to his skill as a manufacturer.
Buying political power is the line the writer did not want to cross. No need to wake up the rubes and cause problems. It's pretty obvious most ongoing crimes involving money could not happen unless politicians, prosecutors and law enforcement look the other way. I am reminded of this when the local sheriff and DA started busting streetwalking hookers just before elections, but didn't touch the escort services and dancer to your room business models.
You either need to watch the show again, or improved your media comprehension 😂 Walt literally has an entire scene explaining how hes "in the expire business"
@@tanjeeschuan4999 the only thing keeping him alive was his skill as a manufacturer, and nothing more. If they would have been satisfied with Gale's only infinitesimally inferior product, Mr White would not have survived a week. He had no protection at all except from other overt gangsters. He had no protection from covert gangsters, like politicians and police. He had no inside man feeding him Intel. He had nobody in compromising circumstances.
What’s heart breaking is that to me, I could see this being how Walt met Skylar. 😢 I remember in season 1, the episode “Cancer Man” (I think), Walt told his family that he met Skylar at a bar or a coffeehouse or somewhere he would go everyday after work at Greymatter, and he would talk to Skylar who was work there as a waitress or hostess or whatever. The conversation probably got started a simple way to this. He was off duty, having a drink and some food while contemplating on his next move at the company. A beautiful lady behind the counter caught his attention and the rest is history. Here over two decades later Walt finds himself in a similar situation mirroring his past. Only now he’s an old man At death’s door. A wanted man at that. Yet here he is almost back at square one, metaphorically. Some things never change.
@@alonzobishop3671 no he wasn't. Gus started it all when he ordered the murder of Tomas. Then Jesse went to kill the drug dealers. Walt was at fault for caring too much in a ruthless business. Then it was survival mode, can't be blamed for saving his life -even if he manipulated Jesse by poisoning Brock. After Gus death, things were going fine until Wachsberger (Mike's pick for attorney) got himself followed and caught. And Walt empire fell because he was too stupid to not get rid of the book. Walter "knew his place" and did "his job. He was fine with being a chemist and win money steadily with no risks. That's why he ratted Jesse with Gus. So, it wasn't "your pride and your ego" as Mike said.
The arms dealer only asking Walter for his word he won't bring it across the Border and then leaving after with just a "well... good luck, I guess" is perfectly done with the somber tone he speaks in while he's clearly quite anxious as he adjusts and fidgets his body while talking. He already met with Walter once when Walter went to purchase a weapon for "self-defense" and certainly knows about what Walter has done to rise to control over a portion of the drug world, so seeing him so changed now into this depressed, disheveled mess of a person while knowing what he was capable of is highly worrisome when he wants to now purchase a fucking light machine gun that he only plans to use where it "won't leave town." He knows some real fucking shit is about to go down and that whatever is happening is related to why Walter is a mental wreck, only feeling sorry for him and hoping Walter makes it out okay. The arms dealer even with the small amount of time he's shown up on screen has quite good characterization across both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Genuinely one of my more liked characters.
I love how this season played into the heavy forehshadowing like S2 had. Really does a great job at not only filling in the timeframe of the very late season to prepare you for the finale, but it also build the mystery which engages the audience to stick it out to the end!
I like how Lawson just leaves Walt with a "good luck, I guess" because there's no way any illegal business involving an M60 machine gun is going to go smoothly.
I don’t think that’s why. I think it was more like he knew she could use it. He knows his time is up. He’s dying and he actually doesn’t have as much money as we think at this point if I’m not mistaken. It went from millions to thousands real quick.
I agree with the comment above. Furthermore, I think he appreciated the waitress for being kind to him, when all the rest in the world hated him at this point and wanted him dead.
What a cynical thing to say. She was friendly, cheerful (and quite easy on the eyes, too) and obviously wasn't making a lot of money if she was working as a waitress. If he had wanted to impress her or show off, he would at least said something like "I left you a little something there..." as he left. Instead he didn't even react when she wished him happy birthday again as he was walking out.
@@MegaGator39Naw.. he still had millions left. IIRC he took one barrel of cash with him, which was estimated to have contained between 7 and 10 million. No way he would've spent all that even with high cost of living due to him going off the grid. I mean... it wasn't like he was living it up on a Caribbean party-island, he was stuck in a log-cabin in the mountains for months and months. Plus he left a small fortune for his kids' college fund with that Alfred E. Neuman looking dude. He was still loaded at this point.
@@MegaGator39by the time he got to that diner he probably only had at least $900,000 left after giving $9 million to his ex gf and her gay best friend and I think at least $1 million to Jesse's friends.
I don't get it...Why can't they have the same birthday? Do you know how many people in the world share the same birthday? What like a million at least?
You know what’s crazy? According to Vince Gilligan and his writing team when they first wrote the scene uncle Jack didn’t exist yet, neither did his gang. Whoever or why Walter White was going to use the machine gun on had not yet been written. Breaking bad Raiders deserve so much praise he managed to reverse engineer flawlessly and give us one of the greatest final seasons ever
I'll Never forget seeing this for the first time live on TV. After that massive balls-out ending of S4, having this time jump scene was absolutely mind boggling. "Why's he here? Why's he look like that? Who's that M60 for? Where's Jesse?" It opened up 500 questions and had everybody on edge most of the season for 'how' Walt ends up here. I was still in Middle School when this aired, most every boy in my grade and the one above (and probably the rest above) was glued in to this show, for virtually all of them (except for me) this was their first 'adult show', with some exceptions like South Park or Rated R movies. So not only did this have adults hooked, this show had kids as young as 13 hooked, and to think this show almost got canceled TWICE, it came a rats twaught hair away from being shelved after Season 2 or maybe Season 3, which in hindsight is seriously wild. The only thing that saved this show, and made it BIG, was it being on Netflix (and that's when Netflix BLEW up).
Only a few scenes in Breaking Bad give us an incisive portrait of Lawson, the firearms dealer. He sees himself as supplying what he feels is anyone's right to own and likes to think his customers will use the weapon for self-defense or reasonable disagreement. That's why he's comfortable dealing with Mike who he feels will use a weapon in a manner Lawson would find reasonable. But Walt is a completely different deal for Lawson, who has no confidence Walt is solid or even stable. Lawson isn't even comfortable selling Walt a revolver, but at least there's a limit to how much damage Walt can do with it. But this machine gun reveals the complete lie in Lawson's own image of himself. He's selling a weapon of mass destruction to someone who may use it for God knows what, Lawson even lamely asking for reassurance the weapon won't cross the border. He knows he's just a seller of death and destruction.
Just realized... Walt was so anti-charity. The waitress says he can get his meal for free since it was his birthday. He initially declines, but finally accepts the free meal.
Imagine being a waitress, living a normal life, and then discovering on the news that the man you had just treated kindly in the diner was actually a drug kingpin with a thriving meth business.
Some people who like metaphysics and spiritual world often say people are destined to die in dates around their birthdays. Gilligan and Gould probably even took that under consideration whilst setting up Walt's death. Well that's being thorough
I think that it's all just coincidence. My great grandmother passed 3 days before her 94th birthday. However, my great grandfather was born in October but died in January. It's all arbitrary to me.
Remember when Walt and Jesse were cooking in the dessert and were headed to Dennys for a “Grandslam Breakfast” before the RV died. Not meant to eat Dennys I guess. 😅
Maybe its just me but great as this ending was I feel like it would've been better if they never showed what he had in the trunk, other than maybe the part with him rigging the swinging mount contraption. That way when the trunk popped and the machine gun opened up it would've been a complete surprise
There's this concept in screenwriting called "Chekhov's gun" where a character places a loaded gun in full view of the audience (and only the audience) in act I, then they have to wait in anticipation for the gun to be used in act III. Breaking bad does this all the time: Ricin behind an outlet, Walt buying a gun in s4, the cousins getting a free hollow point in s3. It's a narrative device used to help build anticipation.
The surprise was how he used it and the aftermath. The gun was just a tool, like the ricin capsule. The ricin was originally for Tuco. Later for Gus, and finally artfully delivered to that snake Lydia.
That is a possible route, but there is such a thing as too much mystery. When Walt arrives at the meeting, there is tension over where he'll park the car, whether or not he'll be able to get his keys back after the Nazis take it, what will happen to Jesse, etc, etc. We can EITHER have that or have the device in the trunk be a mystery. Hiding both would've been too much. You don't want your audience juggling too much uncertainty, there's more tension when they know part of the puzzle. When they have some pieces, but no idea how they fit. And as others pointed out, with how ridiculous the gun set up was, the only way ground it was to show Walter building and testing the rig. It was either that or having him monologue an explanation after the fact, and that wouldn't have been great.
Rewatching breaking bad s1 ep4 Walt describes the fire meeting of seller she was a waitress at a diner did crosswords with her for some reason rewatching that episode made me directly think of this scene definitely done on purpose. God I fucking love this show
It's a projection fantasy. They wish they could leave their plates full, when the fact is it's considered a felony if they don't leave their plates completely empty.
@@Acetheskywolf yeah ok but if I wanted to change my identity I'd change my birthday too I mean like lots of people are called walter white but I doubt he kept that name
Watch up to the end of Episode 2. If you're not hooked by then, it's probably not going to happen later. But it is a great little show. Season 1 gets a little rough after that, but it's a short season, and the show is fire from S2e01 all the way to the end.
@@AdamArchangel Cool, I’d love to visit Australia one day! Very common here in the states to have hash browns or some sort of fried potatoes with bacon or sausage and eggs. Good day, mate! Haha. 🤣
It was when the prices of oil gas per-gallon actually rising up, so they had to raise the gas prices due to imbalances of the prices, at least that was what i read long ago.
I’m very happy he tipped a hundred for her. She treated him like a person instead of a customer.
What's the difference?
@@HighSpeedNoDrag you needed to be a person to undrestand
@@HighSpeedNoDrag The fact that you don't know tells me you treat more people like customers than you treat them like PEOPLE.
@@KitKatNisa What about treating patrons like customers and people? Your first sentence is conjecture. I have not worked in the Food Service business since I was a cook at Mac's Steakhouse, 1983. The main cook Gene was a beer drnking psycho and radomly did not show up Sunday mornings and sunday lunch was insanely busy without Gene. I just could not carve the roast beef on the buffet like Big Gene but I treated everyone the same given I was 17 years old.
@@HighSpeedNoDragHis first sentence, you mean his only sentence?
The biggest crime that was committed in the entirety of the show was that Walter ordered a whole breakfast and didn’t eat a single bite.
You've gotta at least grab a piece of that crispy bacon on the way out the door.
Hardened criminal!
He probably ate it... If there were multiple re-takes involved, he was probably full by then... who'd want to eat same thing over and over?
I could go for that Right Now, with a Side of Ham and Sausage, 2 Glasses of Choclate Milk and A Tums for 40 minutes Later 😂
Also paid for a free meal!
This is one of my favorite scenes in the series. It feels like dust settling after a storm, with somber undertones. Especially with after everything he's done, and he's just sitting in plain sight, in public next to ordinary people and none of them have a clue who he is.
reminds me of the end of Narcos where after months of hiding, even celebrating his birthday in hiding, Pablo Escobar returns to his hometown and sits peacefully on a park bench in public eating strawberry ice cream. The first and last time he'd ever genuinely enjoy life in a long time.
@thesnakbar that scene in narcos....then his buddies ghost shows up....yes great scene...pablo knew he was done sad
Love how Walt's first meeting with the arms dealer ends with Walt saying his gun was for self defense. And now he's full on ordering an M60 and not even trying to argue that.
I think the manual had a 4 in front before it was cut off so m42, not tryna be a stickler, u know what nvm don’t mind me this is an annoying comment, who cares if it’s an m42 and not an m60, much apologies sir. I apologize profusely, Im gonna go put my head through a wall. Many apologies, much forgiveness.
@@NattyIce553Okay, calm down!
@@NattyIce553 you went through the 7 stages of grief while telling a fun fact
@@StockBrokersLTD lol Thats a funny ass comment dude
@@NattyIce553there isnt an m42 light machine gun in US operation nor has there been anyhow! Definitely an m60 model LMG. Myth busters even used an M60 for their comparison
What a crazy Dennys commercial
Lol😄👍
i lol'd
It is actually sad.
"Dennys, where the most wanted drug dealer meth lords conduct business with gun dealers".
@@alexvergara1487 isn't that just USA as a whole
This is the reason why Walter Jr was mad at his father, he wasted his breakfast.
because he was a p p p pussy
On the one hand at least he got real bacon for the first time, on the other he didn't even taste it
Yeah, the other bacon tasted like band-aids
Indicative of his life in crime, right? He finally got money, power, respect, and he didn't even really get to enjoy any of it.
@@kevintrice2444 Maybe that's true about the money. But he certainly did enjoy the power. He told Skyler as much in the last episode. "I did it for me. I did it because I liked it."
@@kevintrice2444it probably has more to do with how filmmaking works but yeah its not as deep
Whenever I’ve seen bacon on US shows it doesn’t look that appetising. It’s different than the bacon I’m used to in the UK. I think it’s a different cut from the pig.
That little wistful fondness he expressed when talking about the science museum.
The most confusing thing is that his New ID somehow has his old birthday.
Vacuum cleaner guy got lazy
It's very easy to give yourself away not responding to your "new" birthday I imagine. Giving him the old birthday was a good solution. Plenty of people share birthdays.
@@TheStraightestWhitestexactly! Having the same bday won't give you away. But having a different bday might!
@@caseybanter Yup.
@@TheStraightestWhitestI also think it’s sentimental for him since Skylar use to make him the same breakfast so maybe he didn’t want to forget his real birthday
The waitress is so cute and very polite. She indeed deserved a 100 bucks tip!
no lol, you didnt understand a shit from this scene)
Probly a little more that to😂
Best meal ever at Denny's. 20hrs, no sleep or food and we were starving. It cost a few dollars. Our introduction to the USA - a memory to last a lifetime!
Breaking bad? Yes, the same category - will never be bettered.
Yeah ok chief.....
@@dd-ys9wi Salute dd 1....glad you and your crew made it! Cheers From Ohio
Even if I wasn't the slightest bit hungry, I'd at least eat the bacon.
Not Eating that Bacon was probably one of the worst Crimes Walter committed .
I don't eat pig.
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U.S Bacon is the worse 🤣🤣 mite as well use it to break ice
There's always room for bacon
The way that bacon broke made my mouth water. I could almost taste it 😊
I'm wishing I hadn't seen BB three times. I want to see it all again.
At 70, my father has mild dementia. He is enjoying all the older movies like he is seeing them the first time. Seems like forgetting is sometimes good.
@@thyagtubes That's both tragic and beautiful. I don't know you or your father, but I wish you and your father and your family the very best. Peace.
@@thyagtubesfrankly, I love meeting new people
Watched it with a friend for my 3rd time and girlfriend for the 4th. Showing things to people who've never experienced them before can emulate that new feeling a bit
@@Shaka1660that’s very interesting
Unbelievable that this all took place within only two years. The episode when Skyler went into the pool was supposed to be only 1 year since the pilot…crazy. The amount that Walt changed that drastically within a year is honestly disturbing
A lot can happen in a year
I feel like at most restaurants, ordering a side bacon would never give you enough to spell out '52' on your plate. You'd be lucky if you could spell out '11.'
😆
Gotta love Lawson. An illegal gun dealer with integrity.
@davidhutchinson5233 must give you props in two ways. For one I forget the gun dealers name and I was scrolling the comments hoping to find it. Not only did your comment remind me of his name "Lawson"...... It did it with one of the funniest but truest statements on here. The only crime is your statement deserves more likes!!! 😂🤣😂🤣
Let's be honest the only integrity he had was through the necessity of him not being caught in a ring of arms dealing. Other than that he does not care what happens to anyone outside his circle.
@@richardlawson6668 um........I might need something ...you might have...
Lawson and Joe are underrated. They helped Walt, Jesse and Mike a lot.
@@TheAmbientUniversesounds natural for an arms dealer isn’t it
The strangest thing about this show is that Walter never tried to build an Empire. Despite all his money, he never tried to pay off police or politicians. Yet, he always pretended in his own mind that he was very powerful. His power was limited to his skill as a manufacturer.
Buying political power is the line the writer did not want to cross. No need to wake up the rubes and cause problems. It's pretty obvious most ongoing crimes involving money could not happen unless politicians, prosecutors and law enforcement look the other way. I am reminded of this when the local sheriff and DA started busting streetwalking hookers just before elections, but didn't touch the escort services and dancer to your room business models.
You either need to watch the show again, or improved your media comprehension 😂
Walt literally has an entire scene explaining how hes "in the expire business"
@@snifftheshark and yet he never tried to build an empire. Gus had an empire. The guys in the cartel had an empire. Walter was just a high end cook.
He feels powerful from taking out people. Not from buying off or having soft power over them.
Probably why he took out the prisoners
@@tanjeeschuan4999 the only thing keeping him alive was his skill as a manufacturer, and nothing more. If they would have been satisfied with Gale's only infinitesimally inferior product, Mr White would not have survived a week. He had no protection at all except from other overt gangsters. He had no protection from covert gangsters, like politicians and police. He had no inside man feeding him Intel. He had nobody in compromising circumstances.
What’s heart breaking is that to me, I could see this being how Walt met Skylar. 😢
I remember in season 1, the episode “Cancer Man” (I think), Walt told his family that he met Skylar at a bar or a coffeehouse or somewhere he would go everyday after work at Greymatter, and he would talk to Skylar who was work there as a waitress or hostess or whatever.
The conversation probably got started a simple way to this. He was off duty, having a drink and some food while contemplating on his next move at the company. A beautiful lady behind the counter caught his attention and the rest is history.
Here over two decades later Walt finds himself in a similar situation mirroring his past. Only now he’s an old man At death’s door. A wanted man at that. Yet here he is almost back at square one, metaphorically. Some things never change.
Awesome idea!!
52 isn’t old 😂
@@JeffreyGillespie 50s is middle age so it kinda is
@@Patrick-nq9ij dude middle aged is not old that’s exactly the point 😑
@@JeffreyGillespie It's not young either so It's still kinda old
52 is literally the "Identical, Mirror Image, Good bad, Active, Inactive" like Heisenberg
Raw type footage that gives us the viewer a front row seat is what made breaking bad so relatable
This is the moment Walter became Flynn’s arch-nemesis
All of this - falling apart like this - is on you!
You just had to blow it up!
You, and your pride and your ego!
You just had to be the man!
Well, his fall started because he was careless and left a self-incriminating book, not because of his ego
Mike was right about basically everything… 👍🏻
@@alonzobishop3671 no he wasn't.
Gus started it all when he ordered the murder of Tomas.
Then Jesse went to kill the drug dealers.
Walt was at fault for caring too much in a ruthless business. Then it was survival mode, can't be blamed for saving his life -even if he manipulated Jesse by poisoning Brock.
After Gus death, things were going fine until Wachsberger (Mike's pick for attorney) got himself followed and caught.
And Walt empire fell because he was too stupid to not get rid of the book.
Walter "knew his place" and did "his job. He was fine with being a chemist and win money steadily with no risks. That's why he ratted Jesse with Gus. So, it wasn't "your pride and your ego" as Mike said.
@@miguelporras8366 His ego is the reason he kept the incriminating book. It was a trophy to him.
@@josephgarrett5693 maybe it wss just carelessness. Well, anyway the book thing was after Mike telling him about pride and ego, so Mike wasnt right
Has to be the most fun character to play ever
The arms dealer only asking Walter for his word he won't bring it across the Border and then leaving after with just a "well... good luck, I guess" is perfectly done with the somber tone he speaks in while he's clearly quite anxious as he adjusts and fidgets his body while talking.
He already met with Walter once when Walter went to purchase a weapon for "self-defense" and certainly knows about what Walter has done to rise to control over a portion of the drug world, so seeing him so changed now into this depressed, disheveled mess of a person while knowing what he was capable of is highly worrisome when he wants to now purchase a fucking light machine gun that he only plans to use where it "won't leave town."
He knows some real fucking shit is about to go down and that whatever is happening is related to why Walter is a mental wreck, only feeling sorry for him and hoping Walter makes it out okay.
The arms dealer even with the small amount of time he's shown up on screen has quite good characterization across both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
Genuinely one of my more liked characters.
Wow real bacon and to think that is all Jr. really wanted the entire series.
Smells like Band-Aids.
One of the few shows where the whole thing was satisfying. The beginning and ending
Nah. Skyler dying would’ve made it satisfying. I hate her
@@hitt357 I didn't like her either but getting Jesse free and him kinda whacking himself in the process was somehow satisfying.
@@hitt357toddler mindset
They flubbed the last season of BCS. But this was perfection.
I would devour that breakfast right now
Are you high?
the egg is undercooked - the eggwhite is still liquid near the yolk.
I love how this season played into the heavy forehshadowing like S2 had. Really does a great job at not only filling in the timeframe of the very late season to prepare you for the finale, but it also build the mystery which engages the audience to stick it out to the end!
The gentleman in the background is a former co-worker. Great guy! Way to go Joe! Ya made it big amigo!
The gas at Valero is the same exact price today as it was in this scene.
FJB
I like how Lawson just leaves Walt with a "good luck, I guess" because there's no way any illegal business involving an M60 machine gun is going to go smoothly.
"Free" is good even if you're rich. Pure gold man.
Imagine having a delicious breakfast and a pretty waitress trying to talk to you and not indulging either
Nothing hits better then Dennys at the beginning of a road trip , or towards the end
It's amazing how much storytelling and foreshadowing they can accomplish in under 5 minutes on this show.
Mendoza
I like how they kept his birthday the same with his new identity
So his fake license had the same birthday? I guess it would be easier to remember….
Such a midwit observation. So many people share the same birthday, kiddo.
Good thinking
Not a kind of Dennys waitress you'll meet on daily basis sigh
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depends on what part of the country you're in
2:34 So Walt had to buy the car as well?
For the operation Walt was planning, he probably requested the kind of car needed for the affair.
He wasn't gonna pull that off with his Volvo.
A 90s Volvo DL for an El Camino feels like an even trade, but I'm no Kelley Blue Book
He tipped her the hundred dollars because she said “even if I was rich“… He had to let her know that he had money
I don’t think that’s why. I think it was more like he knew she could use it. He knows his time is up. He’s dying and he actually doesn’t have as much money as we think at this point if I’m not mistaken. It went from millions to thousands real quick.
I agree with the comment above. Furthermore, I think he appreciated the waitress for being kind to him, when all the rest in the world hated him at this point and wanted him dead.
What a cynical thing to say. She was friendly, cheerful (and quite easy on the eyes, too) and obviously wasn't making a lot of money if she was working as a waitress. If he had wanted to impress her or show off, he would at least said something like "I left you a little something there..." as he left. Instead he didn't even react when she wished him happy birthday again as he was walking out.
@@MegaGator39Naw.. he still had millions left. IIRC he took one barrel of cash with him, which was estimated to have contained between 7 and 10 million. No way he would've spent all that even with high cost of living due to him going off the grid. I mean... it wasn't like he was living it up on a Caribbean party-island, he was stuck in a log-cabin in the mountains for months and months. Plus he left a small fortune for his kids' college fund with that Alfred E. Neuman looking dude. He was still loaded at this point.
@@MegaGator39by the time he got to that diner he probably only had at least $900,000 left after giving $9 million to his ex gf and her gay best friend and I think at least $1 million to Jesse's friends.
Breaking Bad + Better call Saul = Amazing is not enough
His hairstyle looked better here than at the end episodes
It's because this isn't the bad pubic wig he wore in the last season. This was his hair.
You can tell the gun dealer is exhausted with Walt at this point
When I watched this for the first time in 2014, it was how I learned you got free birthday breakfasts at Denny's.
0:20 homeless man that Jesse gave money to
They look nothing alike and you should feel ashamed for this comparison
@@Pat4ever.it’s not that deep
*_Walter's parents didn't teach him to not play with his food.... more ketchup please_*
This is the exact moment Walter White Broke Bacon
I love this sequence.
Lambert had the same birthday is Walt White? Nope, the vacuum store guy would never make that mistake. Lambert would have had a different birthday
That has always bothered me, too. No way they have the same birthday.
Good spot, never thought of that.
I don't get it...Why can't they have the same birthday? Do you know how many people in the world share the same birthday? What like a million at least?
Maybe Walter was celebrating his fake birthday?
@@marksimon4630 Exactly. For instance you and I have the same birthday.
The waitress checks the TV and looks back at Walter.
*Oh my god, you are Breaking Bad!*
Show ends
"Yeah... and I'd better call Saul..."
The worst crime of the whole series was the Valero sign with 3.63 for gas .. doesn’t quite seem time period accurate.
Great Recession era was like that.
If you want to buy a m60 just come to Denny's for your best breakfast.
The first free thing Walt took all series.
No way is all the money he gave to his form business partner for his kids in that bag he took from the trunk from the first car.
You know what’s crazy? According to Vince Gilligan and his writing team when they first wrote the scene uncle Jack didn’t exist yet, neither did his gang. Whoever or why Walter White was going to use the machine gun on had not yet been written. Breaking bad Raiders deserve so much praise he managed to reverse engineer flawlessly and give us one of the greatest final seasons ever
I'll Never forget seeing this for the first time live on TV. After that massive balls-out ending of S4, having this time jump scene was absolutely mind boggling. "Why's he here? Why's he look like that? Who's that M60 for? Where's Jesse?" It opened up 500 questions and had everybody on edge most of the season for 'how' Walt ends up here. I was still in Middle School when this aired, most every boy in my grade and the one above (and probably the rest above) was glued in to this show, for virtually all of them (except for me) this was their first 'adult show', with some exceptions like South Park or Rated R movies. So not only did this have adults hooked, this show had kids as young as 13 hooked, and to think this show almost got canceled TWICE, it came a rats twaught hair away from being shelved after Season 2 or maybe Season 3, which in hindsight is seriously wild. The only thing that saved this show, and made it BIG, was it being on Netflix (and that's when Netflix BLEW up).
Instruction manual?
I pulled some off the internet.
at the start of the show, at 2008, walt was 50. this scene he is 52 so it must be 2010. yet jesse was show playing rage, a game for 2011. weird.
Brie de Meaux is the best cheese.
Danbo
The show does have some anachronisms. Jack Welker mentions the assassination of Bin Laden, which was also in 2011.
Bravo Vince
Did the start of the show state in-universe it was 2008? If not, then Walt died in 2012. If so, then ye, anachronisms.
Only a few scenes in Breaking Bad give us an incisive portrait of Lawson, the firearms dealer. He sees himself as supplying what he feels is anyone's right to own and likes to think his customers will use the weapon for self-defense or reasonable disagreement. That's why he's comfortable dealing with Mike who he feels will use a weapon in a manner Lawson would find reasonable. But Walt is a completely different deal for Lawson, who has no confidence Walt is solid or even stable. Lawson isn't even comfortable selling Walt a revolver, but at least there's a limit to how much damage Walt can do with it. But this machine gun reveals the complete lie in Lawson's own image of himself. He's selling a weapon of mass destruction to someone who may use it for God knows what, Lawson even lamely asking for reassurance the weapon won't cross the border. He knows he's just a seller of death and destruction.
This is such a somber scene to watch. You know the game is up.
I wish all waitresses were this friendly, just an observation…
It just happens in the movies.
Doesn't initially want to give his I.D because his name and face is in the papers lol, but says "fuck it" and takes the risk.
Don't think so, the name was fake and she had already seen his face.
Fake ID. It was a New Hampshire licence not his genuine New Mexico one. I guess he’d kept his original birthday.
I like that the bacon multiplied itself when he started making it say 52.
Just realized... Walt was so anti-charity.
The waitress says he can get his meal for free since it was his birthday. He initially declines, but finally accepts the free meal.
Mendoza
The real crime is those eggs.
imagine if some fed was in the bathroom taking a shit LMAO
Imagine being a waitress, living a normal life, and then discovering on the news that the man you had just treated kindly in the diner was actually a drug kingpin with a thriving meth business.
I like how the number plate says ‘LIVE FREE OR DIE’. Walter did both
Walt playing with his food while I’m starving here smoking a joint
Well get your life together and stop smoking weed then.
I guarantee that you've never starved in your entire life lol
Get clean , stoner
Funions anyone? 😂
Stop doing drugs.
This and the Rick and Morty, the hole episode, are two of the best commercials
I live in Swampscott and I was shocked when I heard the name mentioned in this scene .
Some people who like metaphysics and spiritual world often say people are destined to die in dates around their birthdays. Gilligan and Gould probably even took that under consideration whilst setting up Walt's death. Well that's being thorough
@@anon_148 there's no symbolism. It's more like a fatal rule.
@@anon_148 there's no symbolism. It's more like a fatal rule.
I think that it's all just coincidence. My great grandmother passed 3 days before her 94th birthday. However, my great grandfather was born in October but died in January. It's all arbitrary to me.
@@matadeverdoemden apparently when you die away from your birthday there is something unnatural there
what can you point me in a direction to research?
Remember when Walt and Jesse were cooking in the dessert and were headed to Dennys for a “Grandslam Breakfast” before the RV died. Not meant to eat Dennys I guess. 😅
Maybe its just me but great as this ending was I feel like it would've been better if they never showed what he had in the trunk, other than maybe the part with him rigging the swinging mount contraption. That way when the trunk popped and the machine gun opened up it would've been a complete surprise
You would have known it was a gun because of who he met. I think they made it too obvious with the Lydia poisoning
There's this concept in screenwriting called "Chekhov's gun" where a character places a loaded gun in full view of the audience (and only the audience) in act I, then they have to wait in anticipation for the gun to be used in act III. Breaking bad does this all the time: Ricin behind an outlet, Walt buying a gun in s4, the cousins getting a free hollow point in s3. It's a narrative device used to help build anticipation.
The surprise was how he used it and the aftermath. The gun was just a tool, like the ricin capsule. The ricin was originally for Tuco. Later for Gus, and finally artfully delivered to that snake Lydia.
It would have felt silly if he suddenly had that huge gun and remote controlled tripod in his car with no warning. Like a dumb action movie
That is a possible route, but there is such a thing as too much mystery. When Walt arrives at the meeting, there is tension over where he'll park the car, whether or not he'll be able to get his keys back after the Nazis take it, what will happen to Jesse, etc, etc. We can EITHER have that or have the device in the trunk be a mystery. Hiding both would've been too much. You don't want your audience juggling too much uncertainty, there's more tension when they know part of the puzzle. When they have some pieces, but no idea how they fit.
And as others pointed out, with how ridiculous the gun set up was, the only way ground it was to show Walter building and testing the rig. It was either that or having him monologue an explanation after the fact, and that wouldn't have been great.
Rewatching breaking bad s1 ep4 Walt describes the fire meeting of seller she was a waitress at a diner did crosswords with her for some reason rewatching that episode made me directly think of this scene definitely done on purpose. God I fucking love this show
Bryan Cranston should star in a Half Life scifi/horror series or movie.
Denny's. " The Home of Greasy Bacon....and....Big Ass Guns"
And cute waitresses.
That waitress needs her own spinoff
Why is it that in American films everyone leaves their dishes full of food? No one's hungry over there?
We get too big of servings and can’t finish what we’ve started.🇺🇸👋
It’s not America, it’s Hollywood
@@ted.angell7609 It's ameriturds.. They serve to much, consume to much. Bunch of fat ass's.
Chinese TV series like 2010's Three Kindoms have food in front of the characters all the time but they only drink the rice wine 😢
It's a projection fantasy. They wish they could leave their plates full, when the fact is it's considered a felony if they don't leave their plates completely empty.
So he shows his ID to prove his birthday, but he's showing his fake New Hampshire ID. Why is his birthday the same on his fake ID?
Lots of people share the same birthday
@@Acetheskywolf yeah ok but if I wanted to change my identity I'd change my birthday too
I mean like lots of people are called walter white but I doubt he kept that name
1:20 am i going insane or does that door shutting sound like it says “family”
Fam
You don't become the most powerful meth manufacturer in the West without having connections😂
I've never seen this show. I'll look into it. I"m still on Season 2 of The Sopranos.
Watch up to the end of Episode 2. If you're not hooked by then, it's probably not going to happen later. But it is a great little show. Season 1 gets a little rough after that, but it's a short season, and the show is fire from S2e01 all the way to the end.
Stop watching spoilers, just watch it all the way through, it’s amazing
There's this 4 episode run at the end of season 4 of Breaking Bad that is the single best television ever made. You're for a treat.
I absolutely loved this show & binged watched it. I am also probably one of the only 10 people in the world that has never seen the Sopranos.
got a LONG way to go ...
I just realized, his fake ID must have had his real birthday on it
I woulda at least ate the bacon before I left.
filming was excellent.
the guy couldnt fix his water heater
2:30 I'd delete that browser history...
She guesstimate the number of miles he travel from New Hampshire to proof out his story. That's "waitressing."
This is her second job to brand new Neurology resident at the local ER. I bet. Whatever she wants!
Why would he change his identity but keep the same birthday?
So did he celebrate the wrong birthday or did his fake ID have the same DOB
Yeah... actually it is pretty weird to have given him a new identity with his same birthday
@@RatatRatR Makes it easier to remember.
Ever notice how many actors play characters with their own first name? (LOTS!) I guess it's more natural responding to your own name.
@@AshleyMooreAMS He had no need to remember it, the vacuum guy sent him to live out the rest of his days alone in a cabin in the middle of nowhere.
I think he has different DOB on the ID and in this scene it's exactly the DOB as his new fake ID DOB ??
Seriously, who tf orders a perfect looking meal, and not eat a single bite. Walt went too far this time
The science museum is awesome. Swam what Lucy? Ain't how we say it.
I want to marry that waitress! What a sweetie!
Go rub one out bro
She would never touch you lmao
The good ones are either already married or lesbians.
She is. Wife her up, man! ❤
Yak, yak, yak…
What else is on the plate aside from bacon and eggs? Are those fries or something?
Scattered hash browns. If you’re ever in a Waffle House or Cracker Barrel get ya some. 😊
@ZCAR355 Oh damn, I'm from Australia so never even heard of that but it sounds amazing
@@AdamArchangel Cool, I’d love to visit Australia one day! Very common here in the states to have hash browns or some sort of fried potatoes with bacon or sausage and eggs. Good day, mate! Haha. 🤣
I got your word this won’t wind up crossing the border 😂😂😂😂😂
why though?
It’s never leaving town
@@babyjackjack8405 brings more attention for the seller further down the road
@@babyjackjack8405 Federal crime rather then State, means FBI and not local cops.
@@TheDeadnaughty you have given me the best understanding yet, thanx 💪
This is the exact moment that Walter White became constipated.
3.63$ gas 😮
yeah
During the recession
Thanks a lot Obama
Well i didn't notice that
It was when the prices of oil gas per-gallon actually rising up, so they had to raise the gas prices due to imbalances of the prices, at least that was what i read long ago.
Is that the Denny’s on Central down from The Frontier and across from UNM?
I still remember that waitress
So pretty and cute!!